Schwarzenegger wants part-time Legislature

Sac Bee ^ | 4/7/04 | AP - Los Angeles

[NormsRevenge]

LOS ANGELES (AP) - State lawmakers should work part time so they would be more productive and less likely to write "strange bills," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a reporter during a family vacation in Hawaii.

"I want to make the Legislature a part-time Legislature," he said Tuesday. "Spending so much time in Sacramento, without anything to do, then out of that comes strange bills.

[NormsRevenge]

A Step in the Right Direction.

[NormsRevenge]

"I want to make the Legislature a part-time Legislature," he said Tuesday. "Spending so much time in Sacramento, without anything to do, then out of that comes strange bills.

"Give them a short period of time. Then good work gets done ... That's when they start getting creative with things."

The governor, however, did not elaborate on what he meant by "strange bills" nor how he would turn the Legislature into a part-time institution.

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I hope the CHPs folks are enjoying to too. :-)

[goldstategop]

Hehehe... I love Arnold. He has smarts and ticked off John Burton. The public loves it and the State Legislature is not exactly popular with Californians.

[Hildy]

Sounds good to me. And if it's part time, they go home and it's less expenses for us. Go for it. While we're at it, Washington should look at this too.

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[NormsRevenge]

Burton and the dems all worked up.. lol.

Arnold should stay on vacation for a couple of more weeks , in that case. ;-]

[No Truce With Kings]

Works in Texas. There the Lege meets only four months once every two years.

Name one law that a state legislature will pass that cannot wait a year.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I forget who said it (perhaps Mark Twain) but there was an admonition, "No one's purse is safe while the legislature is in session." Certainly proved true with a full time legislature in California.

[Carry_Okie]

A Step in the Right Direction.

For the wrong reasons. Arnold wants to rule without the annoyance of dealing with those clowns or too many eyes prying into his hardly petty intrigues.

It's gonna be a long three years.

[Carry_Okie]

He has smarts and ticked off John Burton.

I would put that battle as at best a push. Seems to me Burton got the $15 billion to spend without the Constitutional limits Arnold wanted.

[boris]

I wrote a letter to the L.A. Times (not printed), wondering if there would ever be a sufficiency of laws, regulations, rules, ordinances, etc?

Would there ever be an irreducible minimum amount of freedom left?

Naturally I did not expect them to publish it and they fulfilled my expectations.

--Boris

[sharktrager]

Unfortunately this assumes the legislature cares more about the important work they do than they do about the "strange bills".

[Digger]

Arnie, just shut up & CUT SXPENDING. Let's see the action rather than the blabber.

[looscnnn]

"Washington should look at this too"

They already kinda are, just look at the amount of time Kerry and the other wannabes missed. Just need to make it official.

[calcowgirl]

LA Times had some more quotes from the Hulanator:

Schwarzenegger used his movie background to illustrate the point. The best work got done in compressed time frames, he said. "Pre-production is three months," he said. "You don't have more than that…. Post-production is three months. And you have to be out next summer. Then people perform. 'Oh my God, now we have deadlines.' That's when people perform best. Same with legislators. You have a deadline…. Everyone works. Works like a jewel."

And...

He said that he and Shriver spoke constantly about state issues. Joking, he said that in reading about the outsourcing of jobs to other countries, he wondered whether California could export its troubled prison system.

He laughed. "Hey, we don't have to have prisons in California. What about having them in Vietnam? What about having them in Mexico?"

Shriver jumped in: "No, no, no, no," and said to a reporter, "Don't write that down."

[calcowgirl]

ROFL... more blabber for ya. ;-)
see above

[calcowgirl]

I hope the CHPs folks are enjoying to too. :-)

A week at the Four Seasons in Maui? Oh Yeah!
Do they issue CHiPies aloha shirts for uniforms?

[Tamzee]

Arnold shines again.... and gets precious little credit for it, as usual LOL

[Mr. Jeeves]

He laughed. "Hey, we don't have to have prisons in California. What about having them in Vietnam? What about having them in Mexico?"

Great idea! That is a good shot across the bow of the Correctional Officers' Union.

[freekitty]

They also could say at no salary or much less.